Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,057 5,714 7,186
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.84% 23.17% 19.15%
As % of the General category 34.59% 36.01% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,146 3,819 5,004
10th Percentile £358 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -3.83% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 244
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.75 £15.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% +2.79%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.81 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.31 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +46.36% -1.72%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,290 15,868 21,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.47% 64.34% 57.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,227 10,218 13,751
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,608 748 1,833
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.43 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.08 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% -12.18% +4.82%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £81.41 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £30.83
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.16% -0.17%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,851 £575 -4.17% 1,930
North of England +2 1,262 £492 +6.32% 672
North West +5 665 £465 +3.33% 360
South East -1 663 £500 -4.53% 850
Midlands 0 627 £500 +8.11% 349
Yorkshire 0 550 £525 +10.53% 243
West Midlands +1 448 £514 +2.80% 214
South West -1 372 £525 - 284
East of England +1 193 £513 -8.89% 187
East Midlands -1 174 £468 +8.21% 133
North East -16 48 £500 +13.64% 77
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 289 (3.59%) Confluence
2 202 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 59 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.55%) Apache
7 26 (0.32%) SAS
8 25 (0.31%) CMS
9 20 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
13 11 (0.14%) Camunda
13 11 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 10 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.074%) HCL Notes
15 6 (0.074%) Hyperledger
15 6 (0.074%) Mendix
15 6 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 443 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 157 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 145 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 106 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 50 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 34 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.050%) Sketch
8 4 (0.050%) Trello
9 3 (0.037%) Notion
10 2 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.025%) InVision
10 2 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.012%) UXPin
11 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 290 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 105 (1.30%) NetSuite
3 91 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
4 79 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 67 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
7 41 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
8 40 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
9 39 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
10 37 (0.46%) Aladdin
11 36 (0.45%) SAP FI
12 35 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
13 31 (0.38%) SAP CO
14 29 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
15 27 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
16 25 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
17 22 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
18 21 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
19 19 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
19 19 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,289 (16.00%) Azure
2 927 (11.51%) AWS
3 564 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 398 (4.94%) GCP
5 281 (3.49%) SaaS
6 276 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 258 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 207 (2.57%) GitHub
9 193 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 157 (1.95%) Snowflake
11 151 (1.87%) Entra ID
12 132 (1.64%) Serverless
13 104 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 103 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 95 (1.18%) OCI
16 94 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
17 84 (1.04%) OpenShift
18 83 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
19 81 (1.01%) dbt
20 79 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 146 (1.81%) Firewall
2 120 (1.49%) Network Security
3 68 (0.84%) DNS
4 66 (0.82%) VPN
5 57 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 56 (0.70%) WAN
7 36 (0.45%) BGP
8 32 (0.40%) HTTP
8 32 (0.40%) LAN
9 29 (0.36%) DHCP
9 29 (0.36%) SSL
10 25 (0.31%) Multicast
10 25 (0.31%) OSPF
11 23 (0.29%) MPLS
12 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.24%) VSAN
14 17 (0.21%) VLAN
15 16 (0.20%) DMZ
16 15 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 483 (5.99%) Power BI
2 226 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 215 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 159 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 146 (1.81%) Metadata
6 138 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 125 (1.55%) Tableau
8 120 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 86 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 72 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
11 66 (0.82%) Big Data
12 61 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.68%) BigQuery
14 49 (0.61%) MongoDB
15 44 (0.55%) Power Query
15 44 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 42 (0.52%) Delta Lake
16 42 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
17 38 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
18 34 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 603 (7.48%) JIRA
2 197 (2.45%) Git
3 149 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 93 (1.15%) GitLab
5 51 (0.63%) JUnit
6 48 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 37 (0.46%) Selenium
8 28 (0.35%) Postman
8 28 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (0.32%) MLflow
10 25 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 22 (0.27%) REST Assured
11 22 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 18 (0.22%) Maven
13 16 (0.20%) ERwin
13 16 (0.20%) Zephyr
14 15 (0.19%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.17%) Hudson
16 13 (0.16%) Bitbucket
17 12 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 2,336 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 1,509 (18.73%) Banking
3 1,053 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 446 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 340 (4.22%) Legal
6 323 (4.01%) Financial Institution
7 312 (3.87%) Investment Banking
8 292 (3.62%) Front Office
9 267 (3.31%) Retail
10 253 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 196 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
12 187 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 151 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 136 (1.69%) Local Government
15 133 (1.65%) Manufacturing
16 131 (1.63%) Law
17 124 (1.54%) General Ledger
18 121 (1.50%) Marketing
19 118 (1.46%) Billing
20 117 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,185 (14.71%) Analyst
2 910 (11.29%) Senior
3 851 (10.56%) Lead
4 823 (10.21%) Developer
5 758 (9.41%) Architect
6 627 (7.78%) Project Manager
7 606 (7.52%) Business Analyst
8 514 (6.38%) Consultant
9 316 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
10 276 (3.43%) Data Engineer
11 208 (2.58%) Senior Manager
12 194 (2.41%) Financial Analyst
13 170 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 167 (2.07%) Finance Manager
15 165 (2.05%) Accountant
16 164 (2.04%) Java Developer
17 160 (1.99%) Senior Developer
18 158 (1.96%) Software Engineer
19 153 (1.90%) Programme Manager
20 148 (1.84%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (3.02%) REST
2 242 (3.00%) .NET
3 235 (2.92%) React
4 228 (2.83%) Kafka
5 182 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 173 (2.15%) Middleware
7 145 (1.80%) Spring
8 143 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 122 (1.51%) RESTful
10 104 (1.29%) Redux
11 98 (1.22%) PySpark
12 96 (1.19%) Node.js
13 88 (1.09%) AngularJS
14 76 (0.94%) JSON
15 74 (0.92%) OAuth
16 70 (0.87%) XML
17 62 (0.77%) CSS
18 59 (0.73%) Pandas
19 57 (0.71%) HTML
20 56 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 372 (4.62%) Onboarding
2 346 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 327 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 228 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 196 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 176 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 156 (1.94%) Fixed Income
8 154 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 151 (1.87%) Derivative
10 142 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 138 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
12 134 (1.66%) Data Centre
13 119 (1.48%) Equities
14 107 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 102 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 98 (1.22%) Public Cloud
17 90 (1.12%) AI Agents
17 90 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
18 87 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
19 74 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 282 (3.50%) Windows
2 256 (3.18%) Linux
3 137 (1.70%) Unix
4 62 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 37 (0.46%) Solaris
7 31 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (0.34%) Android
10 25 (0.31%) zOS
11 18 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 17 (0.21%) AIX
13 7 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.074%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.074%) VMS
14 6 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.062%) HPUX
15 5 (0.062%) SUSE
15 5 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.050%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,705 (21.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,671 (20.74%) Agile
3 1,138 (14.12%) Migration
4 1,046 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
5 920 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 872 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 871 (10.81%) DevOps
8 832 (10.33%) AI
9 828 (10.28%) CI/CD
10 806 (10.00%) ERP
11 793 (9.84%) Analytics
12 721 (8.95%) Project Management
13 710 (8.81%) Decision-Making
14 676 (8.39%) Data Modelling
15 673 (8.35%) Roadmaps
16 665 (8.25%) Validation
17 617 (7.66%) User Acceptance Testing
18 615 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
19 588 (7.30%) Change Management
20 532 (6.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,124 (13.95%) SQL
2 983 (12.20%) Python
3 561 (6.96%) Java
4 359 (4.46%) C#
5 236 (2.93%) JavaScript
6 227 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 182 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 85 (1.05%) C++
9 74 (0.92%) Bash
10 73 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 66 (0.82%) Go
12 65 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 55 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 55 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.52%) Scala
15 39 (0.48%) VBA
16 29 (0.36%) Apex Code
16 29 (0.36%) Bicep
17 28 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 28 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 670 (8.32%) Degree
2 624 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 444 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 211 (2.62%) ACCA
5 207 (2.57%) PMP
6 187 (2.32%) CIMA
7 176 (2.18%) PMI Certification
8 146 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 132 (1.64%) CISSP
10 125 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 80 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 79 (0.98%) CISM
12 79 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 73 (0.91%) Azure Certification
14 58 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 47 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 41 (0.51%) AWS Certification
17 36 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 32 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 29 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 495 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 365 (4.53%) QA
3 302 (3.75%) PMO
4 285 (3.54%) GDPR
5 157 (1.95%) NIST
6 131 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 112 (1.39%) IFRS
8 94 (1.17%) SLA
9 90 (1.12%) GRC
10 89 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 73 (0.91%) Accessibility
12 63 (0.78%) PCI DSS
13 59 (0.73%) GAAP
14 56 (0.70%) ISO 20022
15 34 (0.42%) PSD2
15 34 (0.42%) SEPA
16 33 (0.41%) NCSC
17 31 (0.38%) Solvency II
18 30 (0.37%) IFRS 17
19 27 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 260 (3.23%) Docker
2 162 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.35%) vSphere
5 26 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.12%) NFS
11 9 (0.11%) RACF
12 6 (0.074%) GPFS
12 6 (0.074%) KVM
13 5 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.037%) GridGain
15 3 (0.037%) SRDF
16 2 (0.025%) ACF2
16 2 (0.025%) HDFS
16 2 (0.025%) IAG
Systems Management
1 362 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 232 (2.88%) Terraform
3 128 (1.59%) Ansible
4 80 (0.99%) Grafana
5 68 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 63 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 49 (0.61%) SCCM
8 37 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (0.29%) Control-M
10 18 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.22%) vRealize
11 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.17%) Nessus
13 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
13 13 (0.16%) Argo
14 11 (0.14%) CASB
14 11 (0.14%) Puppet
15 9 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,043 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 663 (8.23%) Oracle
3 637 (7.91%) SAP
4 283 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 241 (2.99%) Databricks
6 201 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 181 (2.25%) Google
8 114 (1.41%) Workday
9 109 (1.35%) Splunk
10 108 (1.34%) VMware
11 94 (1.17%) Cisco
12 88 (1.09%) CyberArk
13 83 (1.03%) IBM
14 62 (0.77%) Citrix
15 60 (0.74%) OpenAI
16 54 (0.67%) Sage
17 53 (0.66%) Ariba
18 50 (0.62%) Bloomberg
19 45 (0.56%) IFS
20 43 (0.53%) Informatica